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Optical networking startup Acacia files for $125M IPO
Nutanix Inc. isn’t the only data center startup that filed for a public offering this week. While the converged infrastructure vendor was basking in the limelight, Acacia Communications Inc. quietly informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it’s also planning to hit the stock market early next year with the goal of raising $125 million, a target that ...
IDC: Hyperconverged infrastructure reached new heights in Q3
Vendors shipped nearly 35 percent more converged infrastructure in the third quarter than the same period last year but saw total worldwide revenue increase by less than a fifth of that, according to a new estimate from International Data Corporation (IDC). The research firm believes that the discrepancy reflects a shift in spending from the ...
AWS launches container registry for large Docker projects
Managing Docker projects on Amazon Inc.’s cloud will become a lot easier for development teams after they return to work from the holiday thanks to the launch of a new service that promises to automate the handling of software components. The EC2 Container Registry can be used to store everything from low-level building blocks like operating ...
MapAnything raises $7.3 million to turn Salesforce.com into a geosaptial analysis console
Geospatial analysis is starting to receive some serious attention in the venture capital community. Less than two weeks after Factual Inc. raised $35 million to help widen the adoption of its location data service, MapAnything Inc. has completed a $7.3 million round of its own to launch a similar growth initiative. The new capital will be spent ...
Oracle buys container startup StackEngine to bolster developer cloud
For a large vendor trying to catch up on a new technology trend, tapping its vast cash reserves to acquire a startup that already has an entry in the race is a lot more convenient than spending time building its own from scratch at the risk of falling further behind. The latest anecdote for that comes ...
What you missed in Big Data: Real-time intelligence
The challenge of handling the growing amounts of real-time data entering the corporate network returned to the center of the analytics discussion last week after IBM Corp. added four new stream processing services to its public cloud. The star of the lineup is a machine learning engine that allows organizations to create pre-programmed algorithms for picking out ...
What you missed in Cloud: Managing usage
The competition in the public cloud continued unabated last week despite the looming holiday break with a renewed focus on price cuts, the historical bread and butter of the top providers’ differentiation efforts. Amazon Inc. fired the first shot with the launch of a new instance type that accumulates credits when left idle to let ...
Microsoft acquires Metanautix for its data integration service
While the rest of the industry was winding down for the weekend, Microsoft Corp. marked last Friday with the announcement of its latest acquisition, a startup called Metanautix Inc. that has developed a service for integrating data from disparate systems. Its main selling point is an indexing mechanism that catalogs the contents of every source ...
Dell subsidiary SecureWorks files for IPO
Another piece of the complex accounting puzzle that is Dell Inc.’s attempt to acquire EMC Corp. has fallen into place after its SecureWorks subsidiary filed for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move appears to be part of the rumored eleven-figure fundraising effort that the technology giant is pursuing ...
BlackBerry’s software-centric comeback plan is starting to work
It only took one positive earnings call for the market to regain faith in BlackBerry Ltd. Shares of the Canadian mobile vendor are up more than 11 percent this morning after its third quarter financial results topped the average analyst estimate on the back of a 14 percent sequential sales increase, an improvement that would ...